Bible Verses About Desire for Freedom

If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the Lord; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.